skin bubbles aka....I HAVE A DISEASE!!!!!
i have a disease. a for real there's a medical term for this-its quite possible i might die-most definitely froth at the mouth-might go into convulsions-what is wrong with my arm disease.
it all started saturday. saturday and that damn 22 mile run that beat me to a bloody (minus the blood) pulp. ooooh, rue the day, rue it. RUE!
after my (very long stupid ridiculous horrible) run i sat on the curb and stretched/hydrated/made very pathetic attempts to recover from said run. i was covered in dried salty sweat and i was disgusting. but i was cold. for whatever reason it was actually getting colder as the sun was getting higher, so whatever... but i had goosebumps. i ran my hand over my arms and.... bum-bu-buh-buh-bump.
wha'the?? .. why is my arm so bumpy?? i glance down at the tricepty area of my left arm and WHAT IS THAT????!?!?!
all these little bumps/bubbles. just in a patch. just... just there. hi, nice to meet you. we're bubbles and we've taken up residence here on your arm. hope you dont mind!!! (thats what i imagined them saying to me... i had just finished a 22 mile run. i was delirious) so i mini-freaked and start going "umm..yeahh.... what...what is this?? hello? anyone? coach...what? what is this??? what IS this??????" he laughs and is like bahh. i dunno. dried sweat? no big deal, wipe it off... (stupid males never think anything is as big of a deal as it is)... so i use my nails and kinda just...scrape 'em off. the bubbles. the little bubbles on my arm that were bumpy. i just scraped them off. no big deal. just scrape them off. right. ok. done. bye bubbles.
never gave them a second thought.
then today i went for a swim at my friends apartment and then hung out in the hot tub for a while and whatever. fine. went back to his apartment, made some very super unbelievably healthy dinner (chmmpizzamm...shhhhh) and watched tv for a while. it got cold..... i got goosebumps....
OHMYGOD THE BUBBLES ARE BACK. they're back.... Chicago Boyyyyyyyyyyy ew ew ew ew ew ewwwww what is this. look at this. feel my arm, do you feel that? what is that? WHAT IS THAT???!?!?!!
uhhh. eww. i dunno. ::laugh laugh laugh:: as i'm sitting here in distress about the state of the tricepty part of my left arm, he laughs. ACK. great friend. hope its not contagious...herrr-herrrr. funny. he's a funny guy.
so i do what anyone in my situation would do.... google it. with the very scientific description of... "skin bubbles".
ya know what? bing bing bing... we have a winner. click on google's answer and ta-daaa. someone else with the very same problem. there's even a picture (which... ew. EWEWEWEWEWEWEW. thats what my arm looks like. in one patch. but the bubbles are way closer together...concentrated in a business card sized patch. EWEWEWEWEWEWEW) so i read... and find out.... its a disease.
its a disease..... says so right here:
.....While miliaria most frequently occurs in infants, it can also occur in
adults, especially obese adults. The condition is brought on by high
heat and humidity that cause excessive sweating, and can be
exacerbated by tight-fitting clothing and exercise. It is also seen in
adults who move from a dry climate to a hot and humid climate.
did you read that? "exacerbated"...."excessive sweating"...."tight-fitting clothing"...."obese"...
omg. am i an excessively sweaty obese adult?! OH MY GOD I'M AN EXCESSIVELY SWEATY OBESE ADULT!!!!!
oh lordy. why. why oh why must i have an excessively sweaty obese adult disease?
wanna know what its called? Miliaria crystalline.
it even sounds deadly. i'm a goner for sure.
Comments
DATE: 6:00 PM
the post is back! but it's not the same as the lost post.hey, wouldn't it be funny if you came out of this with a new nickname? yeah... something like "bubbles," maybe.=D
Posted by: J | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 6:42 PM
Soo, I guess that you won't be buying the Through the Wall shirt that says, "I hate the feeling of other people's bubbles..." eh? OK...crossing you off the wait list for that one.And you totally grossed me out - I'm feeling for you, really, but in a really grossed out kind of way. You have no idea what you've done to my OCD! ;)Still love ya, hermanita.
Posted by: Wil | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 11:19 PM
this happened to me when I got back from vacation... I had gotten tan, so I guess my skin was ready to peel, I just didn't know it yet because it hadn't started at all, + I never peel...Well I get back from a run and what do I see, disgusting water(sweat) filed bubbles sealed in a thin layer of skin... When I rubbed them the "bubble" popped (EW) and the sweat was let out... then my skin began to peel.It was hugely gross, but nothing terrible... and completely linked to the fact that I had probably gotten sunburned before so the exterior layer of skin was dead.I hope you don't have a serious condition! :-/
Posted by: plods | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 7:13 AM
I had the same thing happen to me....I ran two days after acquiring a very nice sunburn this summer....my sweat couldn't escape from under the dead skin, so I had all these bubbles all over my back. I thought it was pretty fun to break them open, much like bubble wrap, I thought it was pretty cool.I wouldn't worry to much about it, and from the pictures I've seen of you, you can stop all this obese talk right now.Great writing, your style always makes me laugh.
Posted by: Djgoldnboy | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 9:10 AM
my reactions to skin rashes are about the same as yours :)you're not a goner. a comedianne? Yes, a great writer? yes. A runner? yes!do you run with your arms at your sides?
Posted by: Running from my House | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 9:22 AM
Ewww, that's gross. You should go to the ER, something could be seriously wrong!j/k, I'm sure it's nothing serious.
Posted by: bitweever | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 10:59 AM
Can I have your MP3 collection, along with any players you might have? Just make sure they are quarantined and sterilized. We don't want to start an epidemic of sweaty, obese people.And since I'll be around 40,000 runners in Chicago, I could be the next Swea-ty-phoid Mary.
Posted by: Tom | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 3:02 PM
I guess showering immediately after running helps to prevent the bumps?I have seen those around the eye area and they are called milia, I wonder if they are the samee sorta thing?
Posted by: Kiran | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
Your a funny dying man..! hahahaha..! Lol.!
Posted by: bologinz | January 30, 2008 7:24 PM
thanks for the definitive answer to my problem. Looks like I too have the excessively sweaty obese disease.
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